Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Cap-Falcon, Religious chapel in Cap Brun, Toulon, France.

Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Cap-Falcon is a small Catholic chapel at the tip of Cap Brun in Toulon, built in 1975 beside the dome of a former naval battery. Its cream walls and curved terracotta roof carry a square stone chimney topped with a cross; the entrance, under a shallow tiled overhang, is closed by a white metal grille with a cross design, and a low bench stands against the wall to the left of the door.

At the end of World War II, fishermen from Mers el-Kébir placed a Virgin Mary statue in a grotto on Cap Falcon, Oran, thanking her for protecting the town during the 1940 and 1942 bombardments. In June 1962, during the Pieds-Noirs exodus, they tried to sink it to prevent profanation, but it stayed afloat. Repatriated in 1968, it was set in a former German casemate on Cap Brun; in 1975 the Navy allowed it on the battery dome, and the chapel was inaugurated on 26 April 1975 by Bishop Gilles Barthe.

The chapel is dedicated to all Pieds-Noirs buried in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as stated at its 1975 inauguration by Bishop Gilles Barthe. Its name recalls Cap Falcon near Oran, where fishermen of Mers el-Kébir had placed the Virgin statue in a grotto after the 1940 and 1942 bombardments. The statue was brought back to Cap Brun in 1968.

The chapel stands at the tip of Cap Brun, next to the dome of the old battery that now carries the Virgin statue. The site belongs to the French Navy, and the 2007 renovation, led by senator-mayor Hubert Falco, reworked the whole area. Access is on foot from the coastal path; the ground is exposed and the steps uneven, so watch your footing in wind.

Inside the chapel, soil and relics from North African cemeteries are preserved in special reliquaries. These sacred remnants connect two Mediterranean shores and create a space for quiet reflection on historical ties.